Best Public Schools in Zip Code 97429

Zip code 97429 is served by a single school, Days Creek Charter School, an Alternative school serving grades K–12 with 230 students in Douglas County School District 15 — the area is reported as having 0 elementary, 0 middle, 0 high, and 1 alternative school, even though the school itself spans every grade level. Because it is the only school in the area, all district-level figures reported here match the school's figures exactly, so the meaningful comparison is against statewide results.

Compared with the state, Days Creek Charter School performs well on several key measures. Its graduation rate is 84.6% versus 83.0% statewide, and chronic absenteeism is 30.1% versus 33.5% — lower is better, so attendance is a relative strength, though roughly three in ten students are still chronically absent. In English Language Arts, 47.4% of students across all grades are proficient compared with 43.8% statewide, and in Mathematics the school is at 40.8% versus 32.9% statewide, a gap of nearly eight percentage points and the school's clearest academic advantage. Science is the exception: 26.0% proficient across all grades versus 30.6% statewide.

Grade-level results show where those strengths and gaps concentrate. The school far exceeds the state in 4th grade ELA (66.7% vs. 43.5%), 3rd grade math (55.6% vs. 41.3%), 4th grade math (52.4% vs. 38.9%), 8th grade math (47.4% vs. 30.0%), and 11th grade science (42.9% vs. 33.8%). It trails in 8th grade ELA (30.0% vs. 41.5%), 5th grade science (17.6% vs. 30.8%), 8th grade science (21.1% vs. 27.7%), and 11th grade math (21.4% vs. 22.9%). Per-student spending is $24,969 with a student-teacher ratio of 10.3, suggesting a comparatively high-resource, low-ratio setting. With only 230 students across K–12, grade-level percentages rest on small cohorts and can swing with a few students, so they should be read with caution; the reported free/reduced lunch figure of 104.35% is above 100% and is best treated as a reporting anomaly rather than a literal share of enrollment.